“In a world that sometimes feels too fast, Anita's voice, a gentle cast. Through struggles deep and shadows wide, She walked with me, she was my guide. In moments lost, in darkest night, Her wisdom shone, a guiding light. With words of hope and hands held tight, She helped me find my inner fight. Through tears and fears, through dusk and dawn, Her presence kept me carrying on. In life's hard battles, big and small, She caught me every time I'd fall. Now as I stand on firmer ground, Thanks to Anita, I have found A strength within, a will to thrive, A reason still to be alive. So here's to her, a heart so true, Anita, I'm grateful it was you. For every step along the way, You've helped me live another day.”
“Thank you kindly for all our great conversations and for building my confidence again. You have given me the will to live again. I have been feeling so much better since I have been taking the tinctures you prescribed and following your advice with regards to diet. I look forward to working with you more in the near future.”
“Anita, you are such a beautifully wrapped gift that the Universe sent to me. It's been 5 months since our retreat and I am happy, really happy for the first time in a very very long time. I wake up every morning and I'm grateful to be alive. I look forward to my days. I am at peace with myself. You have a special gift of healing and I felt it from our very first session. I wish you continued blessings and hope many more lives can be transformed through your work. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
“My experience with Exclusive Ibogaine Retreats was incredible from the first contact. Anita was warm, thorough, and went above and beyond to make sure I was prepared and comfortable every step of the way. The retreat itself was everything I needed. The setting was peaceful, the care was exceptional, and the medicine did exactly what I hoped it would. It's now been about 3 months and I can honestly say it's changed my life. I'm clearer, calmer, and finally feel like myself again. I'd recommend this to anyone who's open to doing the real work.”
“I wanted to thank you for probably one of the best 3 days of my life. The sacred vortex of abundant energy, Mother Nature, beautiful indigenous plants and plant medicines, wonderful food and conversations. It was truly a magical and unforgettable healing experience. Many blessings and much gratitude for your wonderful heartfelt work.”
“I can't express my enormous gratitude for Anita and the impeccable facilitation of the retreat. I arrived with severe anxiety and complex PTSD; I leave with a sense of peace, calm, and a new perspective on life that I haven't felt in many, many years. The venue itself is a sanctuary, nestled in nature, breathtakingly beautiful, private and safe. Every detail has been thought through. The meals were nourishing, the space was held with deep care and genuine presence. Anita's ability to hold space is unlike anything I've experienced. She is knowledgeable, intuitive, compassionate, and deeply skilled. I felt completely safe throughout every stage of the journey. This experience has been life-changing. Not just the medicine itself, but the way the entire retreat was structured, supported, and integrated. I cannot recommend it highly enough.”
“I'm a 31 year old male living in Los Angeles. When I was 13, I was hospitalized for anorexia and struggled with it for nearly two decades. I'd tried every conventional treatment. Inpatient, outpatient, therapy, medication. Nothing held. I found Anita through research and booked a retreat not knowing what to expect. What I found was a level of care, expertise, and genuine compassion I hadn't encountered anywhere in my long history of treatment. The medicine showed me the root of what I was carrying. Not as a concept, but as something I could actually feel and release. It's now been 8 months. I'm eating. I'm living. I'm not exaggerating when I say this retreat saved my life.”
“My journey with Ibogaine was incredibly powerful and, at times, challenging. It revealed deep insights about patterns I'd been carrying for years, things I intellectually understood but had never fully felt or integrated. Anita navigated all of it with absolute expertise. She knew when to hold space silently and when to offer a word or a touch that brought me back to safety. The days following the treatment were some of the most peaceful of my adult life. I'm still integrating, but I feel fundamentally different. Lighter. More present. Grateful.”
“Writing this 6 months on. I wasn't sure I'd be able to articulate it, but enough time has passed that I can look back clearly. I arrived broken in ways I didn't have language for. The retreat gave me language, and more than that, it gave me a felt sense of who I am underneath all the damage. The night itself was the hardest thing I've ever done and the most important. Anita was present throughout, skilled and steady in a way that made me feel genuinely safe even in the most confronting moments. What's changed since: I've left a job that was destroying me. I've rebuilt a relationship with my kids. I sleep. I actually sleep. Six months out I'd describe the change as structural. It's not that the hard things are gone, it's that I have a different relationship to them. I'm not drowning anymore.”
“I came to EISA after years of opiate dependency following a motorcycle accident. What I didn't expect was that the medicine would take me to my mum (she passed when I was young) and let me have a conversation with her I'd been needing for 20 years. I don't know how to explain that rationally. I've stopped trying to. What I know is that I walked out of that retreat lighter than I've been in decades, and the cravings that had defined my life for years were simply gone. Anita is the real thing. Not just competent, actually gifted at this work. I'm grateful every day that I found her.”
“I received 5-star treatment from Anita and Marouf during the 5 days. As a mom of two, finding the time and the courage to do something like this felt impossible, but they made every step manageable. The retreat was impeccably run. The accommodation, the food, the care throughout the experience and beyond. The medicine itself was extraordinary. Difficult in moments, yes, but held in a container that felt completely safe. I came for a reset. That's exactly what I got. I returned home to my children calmer, clearer, and more present than I'd been in years.”
“I was nervous about going on this retreat. I'd been living with suicidal depression for years and wasn't sure anything could shift it. I'd tried medication, therapy, everything the conventional system had to offer. What I found at EISA was something different. Not just the medicine but the quality of the container. Anita's presence, her skill, the care that went into every element of the experience. I believe in the power of Ibogaine. And Ibogaine has taught me to believe in the power of myself. Those are two things I couldn't have said before I walked through her door.”
“Home away from home. I had no idea what to expect coming here. I'd done my research, but nothing fully prepares you for the experience itself. What I found was Anita, who is extraordinary. Warm, knowledgeable, deeply present, and skilled in ways I didn't know to look for when I was searching for a facilitator. I came for depression. What I left with is a life without prescription medication for the first time in years, no chronic pain, and no more restless legs. I didn't know those last two were even on the table. The retreat is beautiful. The care is exceptional. I'd return and I'd recommend it without hesitation to anyone considering this path.”
“My Iboga retreat was a deeply transformative experience that I'm still integrating months later. What the medicine showed me wasn't what I expected. It went straight to childhood trauma I thought I'd dealt with long ago and revealed it in ways that were both confronting and, ultimately, liberating. Anita held the space with exceptional skill. She's not just a facilitator, she's a healer in the truest sense. Knowledgeable, present, and gifted at reading what each person needs in the moment. I came a skeptic in many ways. I leave as someone who has had direct experience of something I don't fully have words for, and whose life is measurably different because of it.”
“11 years ago my life changed into a severely intense world of Major Depressive Disorder. I have survived psychiatrists, hospitals, ECT, various combinations of 15+ different medications, and years of fighting to simply stay alive. When I arrived at EISA I was at the end of a very long road. What I found was Anita, and what Anita created in that retreat was the most profoundly held healing experience of my life. The medicine worked in ways nothing else has. Not as a cure. I don't want to oversimplify what's a complex ongoing journey. But it gave me a reset that gave me access to parts of myself I'd lost. I felt myself return. I left with a sentence that keeps coming back: I AM A PERFECT IMPERFECTION. That's enough. For now, that is more than enough.”
“I sought Ibogaine out of a deep desperation for change. I'd been carrying grief for years and it had become structural, something I'd organised my whole life around without realising it. What the medicine did was show me the grief not as a weight but as evidence of love. That sounds simple. It wasn't simple to arrive at. It took 12 hours of the hardest inner work I've ever done, held by Anita with extraordinary care. Six months on, I'm still integrating. But I'm living in a way I wasn't before. More forward. More present. Grateful.”
“The big thing that I love the most after my Ibogaine Journey is the drive that I have. I wake up motivated in a way I haven't felt in years. Simple as that. The retreat itself was exceptional. Anita knows exactly what she's doing and you're in good hands the entire time.”
“My wife died of cancer in 2017. What followed were years of depression and anxiety that I managed, mostly, but never fully recovered from. I tried everything conventional medicine offered. It helped, but only so far. I came to EISA in 2024. On the 5th day after my treatment I started having the feeling of lightness and happiness that I hadn't felt since before she got sick. Not the forced brightness of medication. Something genuine. Something mine. I'm not the same person who arrived. I'm an older version, someone who's been through something, but I have access to joy again, and I didn't know how much I'd missed it until it came back.”
“Today I am clean off drugs for about 2 years. I won't pretend the journey since the retreat has been without challenges. It hasn't. But the difference is that I have the foundation now. The work I did with Anita and the medicine gave me something to build on. Before EISA, I'd tried everything. Nothing held. This held.”
“My testimony, 6 months after my Ibogaine experience. As the days are moving forward, my pathway is making sense. Each day I am finding clarity in the direction I am supposed to go. I feel purpose and meaning in ways I haven't in a very long time. The craving, that constant background noise, is simply gone. What took its place is something quieter and more solid, a sense of being OK with myself. Anita and her team created a container that felt genuinely safe at every moment. I'm profoundly grateful.”
“Thank you, so much dear Anita, for offering such a life-changing retreat. Your unique ability to navigate between both the scientific and spiritual realms with such ease made me feel that I was in the safest possible hands. And the environment, oh the environment. Peaceful, beautiful, and held with such care. Since returning home I'm sober and I intend to stay that way. The medicine showed me what's on the other side of this, and I'm not willing to go back.”
“Came to EISA after years of opiate dependency following a motorcycle crash. I'd been on prescription painkillers for so long I'd forgotten what it felt like to be myself. I wasn't sure there was a "myself" left anymore. What I found at Anita's retreat was a quality of care I hadn't experienced in any of the clinics or treatment centres I'd been through. The medicine worked in ways that still feel impossible to fully explain. The dependency is gone. The pain I was medicating, some of it physical, a lot of it not, was shown to me clearly and, remarkably, let go. It's been 14 months. I'm off everything. I'm working again. I'm present for my family in ways I wasn't before.”
“Attending your retreat was truly one of the best decisions I've ever made. I came with years of addiction behind me and a lot of doubt that anything could actually shift it. What I found was Anita, and a level of professionalism and genuine care that immediately put me at ease. The experience itself was profound. Hard in moments, yes, but held in a way that made every difficult moment feel purposeful. I left feeling like myself for the first time in a very long time. I'd recommend this to anyone who is serious about change.”
“Within days of completing my journey and the retreat, I awoke to a new life. The mental obsession with using, that constant noise that defined my days for years, was simply absent. I lay in bed that morning and noticed the silence where it used to live and I started to cry. Anita created something remarkable at EISA. The care, the environment, the depth of knowledge she brings to the facilitation. I'm clean, and for the first time in my life, I believe I'm going to stay that way.”
“10 months. Absolutely no drug cravings or any thoughts about using. Not one. I can't explain how significant that is for someone who spent years of their life consumed by the next hit. The retreat with Anita was exceptional in every way. The setting, the care, the facilitation. I felt safe at every moment, including the most difficult ones. That's not a given with this kind of experience, and it speaks to how skilled she is.”
“The Universe brought this frustrated Alcoholic and Atheist into the warm and welcoming embrace of Anita and the medicine. I am a different man for it. I won't pretend I arrived open to the spiritual dimension of this work. I didn't. But the medicine doesn't care what you're open to. It shows you what it shows you. What I was shown dissolved 20 years of denial in a single night. Sober now. Genuinely. Not white-knuckling it. The compulsion is simply gone, and in its place is something I'm still learning to name.”
“Today, I am able to be back at work. I am able to function. I am able to live again. Those sentences don't capture what that means for someone who spent years deep in heroin addiction, but I don't know how else to say it simply. I couldn't imagine a life that looked like this. Anita, and the medicine she facilitated with such expertise, gave it to me.”
“I came to EISA carrying a long story. Years of heroin addiction, my brother's suicide, two previous ibogaine treatments elsewhere that hadn't held. I wasn't sure anything would work. What was different with Anita was the container. The depth of expertise, the care in preparation and integration, the quality of presence she brings to the facilitation. She knew what she was doing at every moment, including the moments I didn't. This treatment held. I'm still here, still working it, still building a life. That's all I want to say.”
“For over a decade, I had a constant battle with alcohol. It had become structural, something I'd built my days around, my relationships around, my sense of myself around. I'd tried to stop more times than I can count. The retreat with Anita was unlike anything else I'd attempted. Not because it was easy. It wasn't. But because for the first time, I wasn't fighting something. The medicine showed me what I'd been running from and, somehow, let me stop running. I'm alcohol-free. Not struggling to be. Just done with it. I still can't fully explain that, but I'm living it.”
“I'm 27, from Mauritius. I came to Anita carrying a dependency on pregabalin and methadone that had started with a legitimate prescription and, over years, become something else entirely. The retreat exceeded everything I hoped for. Anita's preparation process was thorough and genuinely caring. She understood both the pharmacology and the person, and the way she navigated that dual understanding throughout the experience was remarkable. I left a different version of myself. The dependency is gone. The story I was telling about who I was is gone too. I'm still learning who's left, but I'm grateful for the chance to find out.”
“My experience with EISA was everything I needed it to be. I came with alcohol dependency and Bipolar II, both of which had made my life unmanageable for years. I left anxiety-free and sober, and that's not language I expected to be using. Anita is exceptional. She held the space with skill and genuine warmth. I felt cared for at every moment, including the difficult ones. The venue and setting added to the experience in ways that mattered more than I expected. If you're considering this path and you're afraid, I understand. I was afraid too. It's worth it.”
“Since starting the microdosing protocol with Anita, I've noticed I'm more laid back and relaxed about life. Things that used to spiral me don't anymore. It's subtle, which is exactly right, but the cumulative effect over a few months has been real and measurable in my daily experience. Highly recommend for anyone curious but not ready for a full retreat.”
“I began my journey with psilocybin microdosing eight months ago under Anita's guidance and I haven't looked back. The protocol she designed for me was thoughtful and personalised. She took the time to understand what I was working with before recommending anything. The combination of psilocybin, lion's mane, and San Pedro has brought a clarity and groundedness I hadn't experienced with any of the conventional approaches I'd tried. I'm functioning better, feeling better, and finally building the life I kept saying I wanted.”
“I have a rare chronic illness that affects my energy and cognition. I came to Anita hoping the microdosing protocol might offer some relief. What I experienced was increased focus, significantly enhanced creativity, and, against all expectations, noticeably improved physical energy on my better days. Anita's approach is careful and individualised. She monitored my progress closely and adjusted the protocol based on what I was actually experiencing. This is not a one-size approach and I'm grateful for the care she brought to it.”
“I am starting to see a world full of possibilities. That's the simplest way I can put it. Before Anita's microdosing protocol, I lived inside a set of fixed stories about what was available to me. Something in the medicine, or the combination of the medicine and the work I've been doing alongside it, has made those walls permeable. I feel more alive. More curious. More at ease with not knowing. I'm grateful.”
“WOW!! I never expected it to have such a profound effect. I scored 97% on training tests that I've historically struggled with. My focus was sharp, my retention was clear, and the mental fog that's been a constant companion for years was simply absent. I came to microdosing skeptically and I leave a convert. Anita's guidance throughout was excellent. Knowledgeable, practical, and genuinely responsive to how I was experiencing it.”
“I'm in my senior years. I've been microdosing with Anita's guidance for three years now, and I can say with confidence that it's one of the best decisions of my later life. I came to it through Jungian psychology, having been in analysis for decades, and what the microdosing offers complements that inner work in ways that I find genuinely remarkable. The clarity, the dream life, the reduced anxiety. Three years in, it's not a novelty. It's become part of how I stay well.”
“Inner peace. Super self-awareness. Super mindfulness. Those are the words that keep coming back when I try to describe what the microdosing protocol has brought me. I'm not a spiritual person by background. I came to this practically, looking for cognitive and emotional support. What I found was all of that, and something quieter underneath it that I'm still learning to sit with. Grateful for Anita's guidance throughout.”
“Depression is a distant memory. It's only been 2 months, and I say that carefully because I know how much weight those words carry for anyone who's lived inside it. Two months is not long. But the distance I feel from where I was when I started this protocol is remarkable. Anita's approach was careful, personalised, and genuinely supportive. She checked in consistently and adjusted as needed. I'd recommend her to anyone considering this path.”
“With Anita's guidance and the microdosing protocol she designed, I've successfully weaned off both the antidepressants and the mood stabilisers I'd been on for years. My prescribing psychiatrist is aware and supportive. I won't oversimplify this. It's been a process, and it's required commitment and ongoing monitoring. But the nootropic protocol Anita built has supported my nervous system through the taper in ways that conventional medicine simply didn't offer. I'm stable, clear, and genuinely well. First time I've been able to say that in a long time.”
“I belong here, though I'm not from here. That's the sentence that kept returning during my microdosing experience, this sense of being at home in a world I'd always felt slightly out of step with. I came to Anita in a practical frame of mind. What the medicine offered was both practical and, unexpectedly, deeply philosophical. I'm functioning better in the measurable ways I hoped for. I'm also softer, somehow. More willing. More here.”
“On my third inhale the experience came on very strongly. The room dissolved and I found myself in a space filled with colours (mainly reds and blues) and a geometry that felt more real than the room I'd left. There was an intelligence present. I don't know how else to say it. What I brought back from that experience is still unfolding. Anita's preparation and the quality of the container she creates made it possible to go as deep as I went and come back integrated. I'm grateful for that. It matters more than I expected.”